| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"An Alamo well worth remembering." more... |
B+ |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"What's left is a deeply compromised film, if not a broken one." more... |
B- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...one of Billy Bob Thornton's best performances." more... |
A- |
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro |
"There's little fresh or provocative here..." more... |
C |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"Historical details surrounding the event are fascinating, partly because so many are in dispute." more... |
B |
| E! Online |
"...well, just boring." more... |
C- |
filmcritic.com
Eric Meyerson |
"It’s a dull, rotten, dreary, excruciatingly-long miniseries about dirtbags fighting over dirt. Yawn." more... |
D |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"...the new Alamo movie gets a little lost in history but does achieve glory in battle scenes." more... |
C+ |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"Factually correct but awfully sober." more... |
C |
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell |
"...the movie limps as if it had a pulled muscle." more... |
C- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"Emotionally inert and poorly paced, The Alamo transforms one of Texas' best-known events into an uninvolving bore." more... |
C |
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer |
"...a valiant but losing effort." more... |
C |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"The movie is first-rate in all departments." more... |
A- |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"What sets the new version apart is its subordination of myth..." more... |
B- |
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